Learner personas

[rkdarst]

The first set serves CR's needs specifically:

• A want to teach CodeRefinery lessons
  • Pathway: (Attend a CodeRefinery or know tools well) → (Helper training) → (carpentries instructor training, CR basics if they don't want to) → (co-teach a few times)
• A2 wants to give CodeRefinery lessons outside of CodeRefinery workshops
• B wants to be a helper in CodeRefinery
  • Pathway: (Attend CR or know tools well) → (Helper training)
• C wants to contribute to CodeRefinery lessons
  • Pathway: (read a bit of lesson design philosophy) → (just do it) → (more advanced backwards lesson design if they do more) - this pathway is very flexible

The following are not CR-specific and could be summarized as "do carpentries or other stuff on your own", but at least most of my collegues wouldn't do that. However, we can provide short and high-impact advice here with a focus on RSE and scientific computing stuff:

• D wants to use CodeRefinery strategies to give their own lessons
  • Pathway: Helper training → (CR instructor training && lesson design)
• E wants to use CodeRefinery strategies to teach lessons
  • Pathway: Helper training → CR instructor basics
• F wants to integrate CR styles into their own technical documentation to make it more dynamic and useful
  • lesson design
• G wants to be a better mentor as part of RSE work
  • Helper training → some special advice?

I will edit the above based on what other comments are in this issue.

Update: new ideas:

• A2 added above
• H wants to host CodeRefinery workshops
• J wants to host their own workshops with CodeRefinery

[bast]

Looks good! A-C is (obviously) most interesting for me/CodeRefinery but also D-G have impact and I would like to help enabling it.

[annefou]

I am not sure B, C, F and G really fit our objectives.

For B and C, I think we send the wrong message: there is no need to attend a CR instructor training to be a helper or to contribute to our lessons. I feel more than attending a CR instructor training is the next step.

for F and G: I am not sure we should try to solve all our problems and cover everything, including RSE work. We should stay modest in our objectives for this lesson: we want our lessons to be taught as much as possible and therefore we want to support those who are willing to do so.

[bast]

But I think in the above suggestion only A and D are supposed to go to instructor training.

[Sabryr]

Does D or E cover the scenario: Some one want to use CodeRefinery materials as part of their own curriculum ?. e.g. A university course on introduction to programing, decides to use CR git intro

[rkdarst]

I added a few more use cases based on ideas above.

I basically agree with Anne about the focus. We teach about how to teach in context of CR lessons, and others can figure out how to appy it to their own stuff. We can do minor marketing that way.

Right now, it also covers C (contribute to coderefinery lessons), H (host coderefinery workshops), about coderefinery itself, coderefinery sustainability.

I think this was a good exercise but and there is a lot of good material in the lesson, but I'm not quite sure what we need to do for the upcoming instructor training. Maybe it's good enough already. Also I'm not sure about relationship to the manuals site.

[Sabryr]

Any comments about the HPC learner profile :
https://github.com/coderefinery/instructor-training/commit/a4fbea1cd812c27af61d0fae53d99da8882bf1a9

[rkdarst]

Any comments about the HPC learner profile :
a4fbea1

Looks good, but I think that's about learner profiles of those attending workshops, this is about learner profiles of people taking the instructor training. But the profiles look good.

[Sabryr]

You are correct, thank you for the feed back with context